It's built on *nix. I once took an extensive website from Windows to a Linux-based ISP. Broken-link city! Decided that capital letters have no place in any pathname, regardless of OS.

@sketch3d.de said: I've made a Windows executable for saving/restoring the SU prefs (no malware, no spyware, no adware, no installation). tested w/ XP, should work w/ Vista/7 too; even though, use at own risk. Norbert Script from sketch3d.de (Norbert) looked really promissing and easy to use . Thank you. Unfortunately, no go on Windows 8.1 with Sketchup 2015 (x64) as the script opens and seem to work normally, but nothing is saved. Tried to save in 'Documents folder" to start with, then created a folder on the desktop, still no go. So unfortunately not working for me... Thank you anyway

Why is this called "Meta" ?? The definition http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/meta means "self-referential".

@jim said: Will need to consider including files and folders in the archive. you just need to add the complete path to the filename and a way to create/check for directories. easy

Ah! Thank you Adam. But I think I may just be being too lazy to check if the files exists...

Jim, That's precisely where it is BUT: always make sure that your "loose geometry" is "lying on it's back" i.e. on the red/green plane which is going to be the component's cutting plane with the blue axis "sticking out" of its front. The "future" insertion point will be the axis origin (and with face me components, this will be the axis of rotation).

There are musicians who are beginning to work in this method. They tell people they are ready to make an album, then get finincial backing beforehand from fans, then make the album and give it away for free, or mostly free, or a free version and a pay version with extra insights to the process, etc. I like the idea Jim. I don't know where you would go to start something like that. It would be cool if it worked, Chris

Perhaps you could use an if() to identify what the users put in? certainly wouldnt be fool proof, though.

Thanks Adam. I still don't understand why sum (which is a Float)shown as 1 instead of 1.0 Might the .inspect method be over-ridden?

No, it looks like you can do "only" export a 3d model, or write an image from a plugin. Thanks.

I have decided this is not an issue. It is only relevant for people who are re-loading a plugin for testing. A typical plugin does not even need menu guards at since it only gets required once anyway.

I used to wonder why SU opened with Sang, and decided that it must have to do with initializing default conditions, and values. I once tried to customized opening SU with command files, special templates, and unique desktop icons, and had problems with drag and drop because of Sang, so now I use my system in the manner that SU intends.

That's encouraging, thanks. I am not able to share the drawings I have, though.

Shawn Tennant worked on turning his PSP into a render engine, running Linux, and then be able to turn many of them into a render farm. I think he succeeded to some extent. I used to have about 4 machines hooked up at home as a mini render farm. It is remarkably useful. Its nice to be able to send a render of to other machines and keep working without the render hogging all resources. Chris

Still in the process of scanning all the albums, scrapbooks and loose photos my parents have collected in their 70 plus years, I'll tell ya that fiddling with the photos on the bed so Photoshop Elements 5 could recognize the gaps (and you must leave decent gaps) so it can separate the pictures out of a scan bed full was too much hassle. Not enough contrast on the edges of photos, like those with light skies, made this an impossible job for Elements to handle. My HP 6210 all-in-one printer/fax/copier/scanner helps me sit and scan as many as two hundred photos in a day (long day though), a scan bed full at a time without restarting the software. It'll stay open for me to continue adding more pictures and when I finish the batch on the glass, I just hit new scan and repeat selecting each photo by double clicking in the center of the photo usually or use the box to narrow down to one photo like using a crop tool and move that box to the next photo when done capturing it. When done with a batch, the software will save them all in a format I choose in a numbered sequence. Even if you run some software that causes a crash while scanning, the files scanned in the middle of a batch are in a temp folder in bmp format to recover manually. Worked great for the over 4,000 photos I've scanned so far. Next come slides and 8mm films... Thank goodness for audio books as they keep me from getting bored while my hands do the loading, unloading and pushing buttons.

The cpoint_with_cline is treated as if it were a lone cpoint at the picked point - i.e. the end of the line with the cpoint attached. The bit of line is ignored, you can't snap to it as if it were a normal cline ! The cpoint_with_cline has the cline permanently attached and it cannot be removed separately... To get rid of the cpoint's cline try this... model=Sketchup.active_model;ss=model.selection;ents=model.active_entities;ss.clear;cpts=[];ents.each{|e|(cpts.push(e.position);ss.add(e))if e.kind_of?(Sketchup;;ConstructionPoint)};ss.each{|e|e.erase!};cpts.each{|p|model.active_entities.add_cpoint(p)} ### or could be reworked to apply to a selection... ;ents=ss.to_a;

thx!

It is a good idea, and will be put to use. Something like the following is how it might fit into what I have already: Animation.add('fog', start_value, end_value, duration (frames or seconds), easing_function) Animation.add (...) Animation.play